BLACKGAMMON: Developing an explanatory framework for co-designing ARG with Indigenous Australian youth in an education setting as a participatory approach to preconception health. National Indigenous Women’s Health Workshop October 2013 – Melbourne

‘Knowledge to Action: to professional practice; to policy implementation; to community action’,

Participatory Action Research seminar: best practice for informing and supporting community driven social change. 18 September 2013 Centre for Research Excellence in Aboriginal Health and Wellbeing, Telethon institute for Child Health Research, Perth

Inaugural NHMRC Rising Star Research Excellence Award which was granted to the top-ranked application by an Indigenous researcher in the Early Career Fellowship Scheme.

Awarded funds ($49,700) from the Australian Institute of Tropical Health Medicine and North Queensland Children’s Research Foundation for a project ‘Do high rates of infection and antibiotic use in Indigenous children amplify chronic disease risk in adolescence?’

Sean Taylor

Roberta Sykes Fellowship ($8,000) awarded by The Roberta Sykes Indigenous Education Foundation to fund extended doctoral attachment to the Behavioral Diabetes Institute in San Diego, USA in early 2015.

My Pathway Ken O’Brien Achiever Award for inspirational work in health services, and helping to reduce chronic disease in Indigenous people in the Torres Strait region.